RailBreak Launch Event

Join us at Bitterne Community Station Hub for the public debut of this interdisciplinary project.

Designed by a University of Southampton research team from game design, music, electrical engineering and sociology, RailBreak is an interactive installation combining a collaborative tabletop game with a working model railway and adaptive soundscape.

Grounded in research into Britain's “broken” railways, RailBreak invites players to make collective decisions about improving the railways and to see and hear these decisions come into effect in real time, in miniature.

The evening begins at 5pm with an opportunity to play the game and explore the installation. At 7PM we'll feature as set of live music inspired by trains and the railways, bringing RailBreak to life in new ways. Feel free to drop in and out as you are able.

Come play with us and help imagine a railway system that serves everyone.

Info: Performances of train related music by performers including Ben Oliver (piano), Heather Mease (fiddle), Erin Johnson-Williams (voice), Bas Terraz (bass), James Ashdown (drums), and featuring Nicola Heinrich ('cello) playing Joanna Bailie’s Trains (2014).

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